Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 12
You come sleep right ober me back; an wen, soon a mornin, you yeddy me knock me wing togedder and crow, you sail right off fuh de Sun house, an you kin ketch um befo eh git up from eh bed.”
Who acts: You, wen · What happens: be, sleep, yeddy, knock, sail, um · To what, where: You, right ober, me, wing togedder, fuh
This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, wen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 sleep | nsubj |
| 2 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 You | cop |
| 3 | sleep | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ober | amod |
| 5 | ober | ober | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sleep | obj |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 ober | nmod:unmarked |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 sleep | advmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 wen | punct |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 wen | det |
| 10 | wen | wen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 knock | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 mornin | punct |
| 12 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 mornin | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 mornin | det |
| 14 | mornin | mornin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wen | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 yeddy | punct |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 yeddy | nsubj |
| 17 | yeddy | yeddy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wen | conj |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 yeddy | obj |
| 19 | knock | knock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sleep | parataxis |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 knock | obj |
| 21 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 togedder | compound |
| 22 | togedder | togedder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 knock | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 crow | cc |
| 24 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 togedder | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 sail | punct |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 sail | nsubj |
| 27 | sail | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sleep | conj |
| 28 | right | right | ADV | _ | 30 fuh | advmod |
| 29 | off | off | ADP | _ | 30 fuh | case |
| 30 | fuh | fuh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sail | obj |
| 31 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Sun | compound |
| 32 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 house | compound |
| 33 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 fuh | appos |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 um | punct |
| 35 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 um | det |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 um | nsubj |
| 37 | kin | kin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 um | amod |
| 38 | ketch | ketch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 um | compound |
| 39 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 fuh | conj |
| 40 | befo | befo | ADP | _ | 42 git | case |
| 41 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 git | amod |
| 42 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 um | nmod |
| 43 | up | up | ADP | _ | 46 bed | case |
| 44 | from | from | ADP | _ | 46 bed | case |
| 45 | eh | eh | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 bed | det |
| 46 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 git | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sleep | punct |
| 48 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sleep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | You | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | sleep | present | You | right ober me | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ober=Theme | ||||
| 3 | yeddy | you | me | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | knock | infinitive | a wen and a mornin and yeddy | wing togedder and crow | me | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination togedder=Theme | |||
| 5 | sail | present | you | fuh and a kin ketch um | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fuh=Theme | ||||
| 6 | um | you | befo eh git up eh bed | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Project Gutenberg book 76586 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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